Carrying on from the idea of creating a Fictional story of the mill owners of Hotspur back in the day. I managed to resource some pictures from throughout the Victorian era of my own family. 'The Cottrells', some of the photos are just exquisite, the colours, smell, scale. Some photos are stunning for the wrong reasons, one of them is blurry, but the edging around the image is beautiful, the blurrs show movement and the photo isnt as 'snapshotty' or posed as some of the others. During the tutorial we dicussed that the qualities of that photo link to gerard Richter's work, the way he uses the gelatine to pull the paint across and blur the image. We also discussed my need for scale, some of the backs of the photos are more interesting than the fronts, blowing these up i can look into working with the backs and devoring them rather than a more difficult and complex full image. I need to look outside the box, dont overlook some areas, i could use edges of photos as inspiration and negative space as well for the Devore. I'm going to order online fromWhaleys some cheaper silk velvet, rather than shop bought.
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